Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-04-09
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Suppose my nephew, Noah should be able
to finish that immense undertaking of his,
land in view of the marvellous progress we
have made in arts should not be surprised
if he did, and he and his three sons should
safely outridc that flood he talks so much
be able to attain will only be on the basis of
what we shall hand down to them through
my nephew's family. Do you suppose they
will ever be able to compose anything like
father Adams 90th Psalm ?-JemiA Writers.
Will they ever learn to make better bread
than we who were taught by our mother,
Eve, who was taught by the Angel Gabriel =?
.uoslem Trddition.
Look at our great and prosperous cities,
from the first one built by Cain, and called
after his son, that great and good man,
Enoch whom Elohim took to himself, down
to the present ones, all so populous and en-
riched by innumerable pieces of architecture.
Look, too, at our vast plains, dotted by i'll
Vulnerable ranches, and owned by so many
cattle kings, every one of which exceeds in
wealth, Jabal. Consider, too, the proficiency
of our musical composers since the days of
Jubal, who was so distinguished for his at
| tainmentS in the use of the Tyre and organ
d,'d pipe organ at MaH No doubt he com.
posed all the music for his father Lamechs
poetry; but what is all that in comparison
with what has been attained since? Why,
my friends, if there should be winding up
of this beautiful and progressive state of
things, as my nephew says and the Lord :
going to begin de moro, all the poets of the
new world would sing of our Jubal as the
| prince of Song.'-JdnteS Montgomery. And
do you suppose they could ever progress as
we have been doing since the days of Tubal-
Cain, so famous in all his discoveries and in
ventions in metallurgy? If they should they
would owe it all to the groundwork of the
hundreds of arts which he laid.-Dw Boytas.
They may equal but never excel US. And
the very nations coming after Shem, Ham
and Japheth will honor Tubal-Cain, if not
enthrone him as their Blacksmith Cod
Greece and Rome IHlean. Neither can they
make higher Improvements in arts, and at
tain higher state Of civilization than We
history, If Noah safely navigates through
that flood which he believes is coming, his
ldllIllN dlltllHIlltIltS, anu CSItCldllN llldI
grandest of all vessels itself will be a greater
monument to our skill than that of the
children of Seth erected in those two pillars
one of stone and the other of copper, on
which is engraved that unfortunate prophecy
of their father, that this beautiful and
progressive state of affairs shall come to
close-tirst by water and il the far distant
future by fire,'-JoscphuS. o, my friends,
we are too far advanced to retrograde. Our
arts are too numerous our improvements
too great. Besides this, there never was such
marked progress Ia eoerything as now 1t is
not only probable but certain that we have
not retrogradcd.- In arts, sciences
and civilization, as antediluyians we are
progressing Forsyth. So great is our pro-
gresS, that if the food should come, and Noah
and his family be saved, and there should be-
as he declares, a new regime, their inventions
and improvements would be only the revival
of ours. This their Bible will tell them if
they only have one and will read it-Ecc1e
i, 8. Their authors, too, when they come to
study our history will be compelled to
acknowledge that our progress in arts, laws,
agriculture, architecture, navigation and the
founding of cities was very great.-T1dto
They will not be able to say that any of the
appearances of art or science among them is
the first production Oft. They will have only
the re,appearances of what we have, that is
all. 1t will only be a restoration of what we
to-day have.-Natthew Hale
Noah says that it is revealed to him that
under the new regime there will be, unsur-
passed progress in their material mental and
moral world but don't belvc it, for we are
row in our 18th century, and it looks as
though there could not possibly be any i'm
prOyement beyond what we now behold.
am afraid it will be ike that little frog OF
which you all heard, that wanted to show
how big the OK was that lie saw away off in
the meadow. They will explode in their
Calebtiah ambition and boastng.-Esop's
FaJlcs And they ought to
met Shem the other day and had talk
with him about his visionary views and call
ed his attention to the material, mental and
moral progress that we are making. And what
do you think he did? Why he Just laughed
in my face and said it was like the progress
which the crab makes.-Cucie? that there
is to be a general breakingu up and a new start
to be taken in the worlds affairs; that there
is little or no spirituality among us that God
don't care about the world Chat is yet the
devil's) only so far as it Will promote the
spiritual. That there is plenty Of faith in
Elohim, but none in Jehovah; that there is
little or no study of the Divine Word, and
consequently no living of the faith of the
faithful Abel.
And this righteous nephew of minc,a he is
called, admits all | say about the progress of
the world but says so far as it affects the
great issue just no between God and the
world, it is all bosh. He says the physical
world will go on but the people will all be
destroyed. Now, my friends, / hayc given
you my views, and if the worst comes to
the worst stand by me and will try TO stand
by you. Amen.
AT the conclusion of the sermon the
people dispersed, and as before, went
on eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage until the flood
came.-Natt. xiv, 3S, 80. The preach
cr did not know that the boasted
progress was the precursor of the end.
The Lord had said II will destroy
man ~ Nothing else would do. The
mighty men, and men of renown, with
all who had corrupted Gods WAY on